28 Nov
2003
28 Nov
'03
5:08 p.m.
Sean Donelan wrote:
ISPs don't have (much) control over third-party computers. But they can control their network capacity. Of course, its not a complete solution. If you are a mid-level ISP, you may have a choke point to your customer but are vulnerable from your upstream provider. A better designed worm could impact even major backbones.
If you are an access provider, specially in the consumer space, you can do many things to help the "Greater Internet" by keeping your own back yard in good shape. In the transit business, you are expected to deliver the bits regardless of the content so there the only viable option is to drop packets where the source or destination addresses don´t make sense. Pete